Happy 4th of July everyone! I love that today’s steal, the Studio Calico Memoir collection, happens to be on this day of celebrating. You might be asking what a beautiful collection of purples, yellows, blues and greens has to do with the day of red, white and blue. I’ll tell you! For me, it means the last 4th of July I’ll be able to celebrate with my brother and his family before they move to New Zealand. This collection could not be more perfect to scrap a photo we recently took with my entire family.

I absolutely adore Studio Calico. In fact, I dare say it could easily be competing for my number one favorite manufacturer. I love the graphic feel that is meshed with such a clean feel.

I had a lot of fun pulling apart the different elements included in the collection.

I knew I wanted to add a little bit of misting to my project so I flipped over the die cut paper that comes with the collection and used it as a mask on my background paper. I then cut up the same piece of paper and use it as the frame for my photo to continue the feel of the design.

I had fun doing a little fussy cutting and cut out some of the cog shapes and circles to create my embellishment cluster.

I added some of the ingenious “Scraps” and some of the chipboard for my title and my layout was complete!

I love that the Memoir collection helped me to preserve this photo. It realistically could be the last time that we are ever all together, as my dad suffers from poor health. So just a little reminder to you all, don’t hesitate to take photos, even if your son ends up pulling a silly face like mine did.

Now it’s time to announce the lucky winner of the Turquoise 9 Mid Week Mojo. Jennifer Blomquist, it’s a good thing you decided to get scrappy again! Random.org chose you as this week’s lucky winner.

I can’t believe how big Caitlin has gotten! Jennifer, please send an email with your address to service@stealnetwork.com and we will be happy to send out a little scrappy goodness to you!

Can you believe this is it? The end of another 10 week series. To enter to win this week’s prize complete this week’s sketch (Turquoise 10) and have it posted somewhere online by 11:59 PM MST Monday July 9, 2012. Leave a comment on this blog post with the link to your Turquoise 10 creation.

Complete all ten layouts from the Turquoise Mid Week Mojo series. (You can reference this page for a link to the Mid Week Mojo sketches).

Make sure that all 10 Turquoise series layouts are posted somewhere online (like Facebook or a personal blog) and linked in one comment on the TOTALLY TURQUOISEblog post no later than 11:59 pm Monday July 9, 2012

If you are new to our Mid Week Mojo series, you can find all of the fantastic details here. Also, as we continue week to week, bookmark this page for your quick reference to Mid Week Mojo links.